Another rainy Friday. But the weather forecast promises—I say, promises—to be good this weekend. I sure hope so. There’s lots to do, including making some soup for a friend who recently broke her elbow. I’ll also be helping out at the Dave Mallet concert, which will be at the Winthrop High School Performing Arts Center this Saturday at 7:00 p.m. It’s a benefit concert for the library expansion. In between, I plan to get some bike riding in. Have a terrific weekend!

From the New York Times: Great news for someone like me who loves fruit—it’s really good for you, and the sugar in fruit is not equivalent to the sugar in soft drinks or candy. So eat that fruit!

From NPR’s the salt: “After three months, $330,000 and a high-profile media blitz, the world’s first hamburger grown in a lab made its worldwide debut Monday.” The verdict? “[T]he burger was edible, but not delectable.” A modest suggestion: maybe we should eat mostly vegetarian, with a bit of meat now and again to jazz up our diets.

From Farmers Market Coalition: This is National Farmers Market Week. I don’t have to tell you where to get your local food, do I?

From the Portland Press Herald: As someone who loves pie, I didn’t think it would be possible to improve on this delectable dish. However, Meredith Goad writes about hand pies, a new (yet old) trend popping up in southern Maine. Give me a couple—one for each hand.

From the writer Ben Hewitt: “Fin and Rye have reached the age at which they are eager to prove they are growing into the young men they will become, and there is perhaps no better proof of such a thing than successfully driving a herd of 30 milk cows across a high, green hayfield and down into the barnyard below.” A beautiful piece about time, change, and the rural life.

From Eat Maine Blog: Kathy Kelleher’s review of Small Axe food truck in Portland, Maine.